BREAKING:After a heated argument BYU Conguar football QB Gerry Bohanon has terminated his contract insisting that….
taken away from me. You still have to continue to build and take care of it.”
— BYU quarterback Gerry Bohanon
Later, Bohanon wondered aloud whether the reporter knew what he had been through the past 16 months. Standing on the BYU practice field that day, however, he delivered a simple reply.
“Oh, very badly,” he said. “We train our entire lives for this. As a kid growing up, you want to be a starting college quarterback and make it to the NFL and be a starting quarterback there. That’s the ultimate goal.”
Since then, Bohanon showed through 15 spring camp practices and scrimmages that his surgically repaired right shoulder is where it needs to be to warrant BYU offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick’s faith in him. Roderick and BYU offensive analyst Matt Mitchell flew to Florida last December to watch Bohanon throw in person, then signed off on giving the former Baylor and South Florida quarterback a chance to compete with incumbent Jake Retzlaff for the starting role this fall.
In one of the final practices of camp, Bohanon uncorked a 60-yard pass that landed a good five yards in front of his intended receiver, a sign that, at least on that day, he had almost fully recovered from the November 2022 surgery.
“It felt good,” he said in a news conference on March 30 after BYU’s final spring practice. “To be honest with you, that was a sign I am back, kind of, but not really. I want to be able to do that with ease, again and again and again, and just continue to be able to do that every day.
“So for me, I have had moments where I am like, ‘OK, I am feeling like myself,’” he continued. “You have those moments where you feel you can make all the throws now. That is a good feeling to know that I can rip a deep ball down the field. But can you do that back to back, and continue to do that throughout a game, throughout a practice?”
Bohanon said at the start of camp his shoulder “got a little sore,” but as he stacked practices and workouts, the soreness decreased to a point where it was hardly noticeable the final
